As part of our Funding & Reimbursement Shorts series, Community Pharmacy England’s in-house Drug Tariff and funding experts have created a new video on prescription switching. In this video, Alisha Khatri and Sarah Welbourne from our Dispensing and Supply Team discuss the topic of prescription switching to explain: What prescription switching is and why FP10 paper prescriptions
Read moreCommunity Pharmacy England on behalf of pharmacy owners made further applications to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), resulting in a further 2 new products being added to the ‘Drugs for which Discount is Not Deducted’ (DND) list from 1 May 2025. This takes the total
Read morePharmacy owners are now able to make a claim for an Aspiration payment for the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) 2025/26 on the NHS Business Services Authority’s Manage Your Service (MYS) portal. The Aspiration payment is optional; if pharmacy owners do not want to claim it, it will not impact on the pharmacy owner’s ability to
Read moreThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has today (30/04/2025) confirmed the following final list of price concessions for April 2025. Drug Pack size Price concession Ascorbic acid 100mg tablets 28 £30.49 Buprenorphine 2mg sublingual tablets sugar free 7 £2.73 Carbocisteine 375mg capsules 120 £3.01 Clarithromycin 250mg/5ml oral suspension 70 £9.93 Desmopressin 120microgram sublingual
Read moreDepartment of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Fentanyl (Effentora®) 200microgram, 400microgram, 600microgram, 800microgram buccal tablets Fentanyl (Actiq®) 800microgram lozenges. MSN/2025/025 Tier 2 – medium impact Date of issue: 30th April 2025 Effentora® 200microgram, 400microgram, 600microgram, 800microgram buccal tablets are out of stock until late May 2025. Effentora® 100microgram
Read moreWith Early May Bank Holiday (5 May 2025) occurring in the first five days of the FP34C submission window, pharmacy owners will have an extra day, until the end of 6 May 2025, to submit their April FP34Cs using the Manage Your Service (MYS) portal and to dispatch their prescription bundle to the relevant pricing
Read moreCommunity Pharmacy England met with health stakeholders last week (Thursday 24th April) to brief them on the impact of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework settlement for 2024/25 and 2025/26 on patients and the pharmacy sector. During the event, attendees heard more about the new funding and contractual arrangements, including how the changes will affect community pharmacies,
Read moreThe NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) produces a quarterly newsletter called “Hints & Tips for dispensing contractors”. The latest edition (Issue 58) contains some useful information and advice on: Tax credits ended on Saturday 5 April 2025 NHS Pharmacy First Service – PPV activity MYS January activity – Monday 5 May 2025 deadline Correctly using
Read moreMHRA Class 4 Medicines Defect Notification: Brilique 90mg tablets (G Pharma Ltd) Drug alert number: EL(25)A/19 Date issued: 29 April 2025 Jubilant Pharmaceuticals BV has informed the Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) that the outer carton (box) of the product batches mentioned in this notification are missing the medicines legal classification for a Prescription
Read moreThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that the NHS prescription charge will be kept at £9.90 per prescription item for 2025/26. A Government press release today confirms that the NHS prescription charge will be frozen, as well as the costs for prescription prepayment certificates (PPCs). PPCs offer savings for those needing multiple prescription items or
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